Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

- Dickens, Charles

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard